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Alright, Heya guys! My friend, Nicola, and I have finally gotten together to write our fic we were planning on writing together. This story shall centre on Usagi. This is a crossover with Harry Potter obviously. This story we are starting from the third year HP time. All the Sailor Moon stuff has happened, you'll just have to see what we plan on doing to make the times fit. The two of us will be working together and alternating between chapters. So I, Glitter-Flutterby Eily, shall write the first, then Sparkle-Flutterby Nicola will write the second. Now that we got all that cleared up, on with the story!!

Lost without you

Authors: Glitter-Flutterby, and Sparkle-Flutterby.

Chapter twelve: Christmas in a forest

"Speaking" *Thinking* Reading/writing setting change POV [A/N]

Written by: Sparkle-Flutterby -Nicola                                                                                   

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The day the school left for their Christmas holidays soon came. Usagi and Takara had gotten up early to bid Draco a happy Christmas which he returned to them in a huff as a group of three girls and two boys in all different year levels came up to him.  Usagi couldn't possibly fail to notice that they all had blonde hair. Yet their hair wasn't as blonde as Draco's, it was mixed in with Browns and Reds. The first girl, also the tallest girl had the long Blondish-brown hair, that just reached her shoulders and bangs that fell into her blue eyes.

"Kalila," Takara mumbled when she noticed Usagi looking at her. "That one there…the one with the elbow length goldish hair is Caia and the other one with really short hair that's really blonde is Jenica.  And the guys…The tallest one is Chandler and the smaller one is Gareth. There's a bunch of them over there," Takara jabbed her finger behind Usagi, "And another group right there…boy there everywhere! You see what I mean?...Hey…wait a second…" Takara scanned the house for something.

"What?" Usagi asked curiously looking around to see if she could spot what Takara was looking for.

"Uh…there she is. See that girl right there? The small one with shoulder length hair in a French braid?" She pointed to her left and Usagi followed her gaze, "Heh, that's Takako. She's the youngest one at Hogwarts now, and named after me with a similar name…although her parents wish they hadn't named her after me now because of what a disgrace I am so everyone just calls her Ko. I don't know…I just got a feeling she will come out on our side. Have fun, Draco-Baka!"

"Don't worry Taka-Baka, he will unlike you." Kalila sniggered making the Baka in her name stand out clearly.

"Hey, Kalila, that actually rhymes. It suits her too. Taka-Baka!" Jenica laughed loudly as Takara's face went red with anger.

"Oh jeez, you guys don't start acting like her!" Caia spat in disgust, "She thinks she so smart with her Japanese. Don't ya? You know, Ko has a Japanese name too and she doesn't go round calling people idiots in Japanese." Caia pointed out.

"Or maybe," Chandler piped up, "She thinks it's cool to call us idiots in Japanese around her friend."

"Well, we all know she's the idiot in the family." Caia added in as if stating the obvious. "She's defiantly the black sheep in our family…" Caia smirked, "Don't you agree, Draco?"

Draco remained silent for a moment before answering, "Just out of curiosity, Caia, what pleasure do you get out of doing this? Did you ever consider the fact that she likes being the black sheep in our family? Besides, who cares if she speaks Japanese, and calls us idiots. So just get over it already. Sheesh!"

A smirk appeared on Takara's face when he said this, "I guess Draco isn't as much of a baka as I thought…he knows when to quite…unlike the bunch of you…So if I were you, I'd quit while I was ahead or else eventually your all going to end up black, and blue. Like you all have…so many times before."

Clearly this threat was enough to shut her cousins up without and 'but's from any of them which made her smirk widen. She was clearly happy that she was still in control around them because they were all still scared of her. The common room was soon empty with no Slytherins at all remaining. As Takara put it, this was where the fun began.

Usagi's POV

I couldn't stop feeling sorry for Takara at all over the holidays. She sensed it from me and told me to give it a rest, but I couldn't just abandon my sympatric feeling for her like that. From what I had seen in that small period of time, her cousins were just as horrible as she made them out to be. And surprisingly Draco turns out to be the nicest of the bunch. I think Caia is the ringleader of the group for some reason, for she seemed to put Takara down a hell of a lot. I wonder what it would have been like if she did go with her cousins for Christmas. I don't know if I'd actually like to spend my holidays with such dreadful people.

But just as Takara had said, Christmas was a great deal of fun for the two of us. Harry, Ron and Hermione were also staying for Christmas this year, so we spent a lot of time with them, just outside having snow wars.

On Christmas morning I was the first to wake, and took it upon myself to wake Takara up too by throwing my pillow onto her face. Takara didn't seem to have many presents by the side of her bed that morning, she just had a red letter that she ripped open with a frown. I had no idea what was happening and got the biggest fright when a woman's voice was yelling very loud at her.

'TAKARA TURNER! HOW DARE YOU THREATEN YOUR COUSINS LIKE THAT AT SCHOOL. IF WE EVER HEAR THAT YOU HAVE DONE OR SAID ANYTHING TO UPSET ANY OF THEM YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF IN MUCH WORSE TROUBLE THAN YOU ARE ALREADY IN YOU LITTLE SWINE! ALL YOUR COUSINS HAD SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT YOUR BEHAVIOUR AS SOON AS THEY GOT HERE FOR CHRISTMAS, AND WE HEAR YOU HAVE BEEN GIVING DRACO A BIT OF A BEATING! AND HOW DARE YOU JUST DECIDE YOU WON'T COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR! WHEN WE ARE HOSTING CHRISTMAS AT OUT HOUSE FOR THE FAMILY WE EXPECT THE WHOLE FAMILY TO BE THERE TO HOST THEM!! BY NO CIRCUMSTANCES DO YOU DECIDED YOU WON'T COME! YOU'RE SKATING ON VERY THIN ICE YOUNG LADY AND WE WON'T STAND FOR YOUR BEHAVIOUR ANY MORE! YOU BETTER GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER VERY SOON OR YOU'LL BE FACING THE WORST PUNISHMENT YOU NEVER THOUGHT WAS POSSIBLE!!!'

Back to normal POV

Usagi's mouth hung open collecting dust and all she was able to do was blink in amazement as the letter tore itself up and became nothing. The noise had been so loud it was still ringing in her eyes. While Usagi looked shocked and horrified that anyone would send such an insulting thing to someone on Christmas, Takara just smirked at the letter before sweeping the remainders off her bed and threw them out the window, still with a smirk of happiness it seemed.

"What was that?" Usagi asked, a little unsure of the scene that had just taken place.

Takara merely smiled with pleasure, "Ah that would be called a Howler. Those are letters we get sent if we have done something our family is absolutely furious with and want to embarrass us even more by yelling at us. I've been waiting all holidays to get one." She sighed, "I can't go an entire year without getting at least one…last year I got seven. They always bare the same message, 'You're a disgrace, clean up your act, or else you'll get the worse punishment possible'…blah blah blah."

Usagi, who was now recovering from the shock nodded, "But, that's not a nice Christmas present…"

"Yeah, I know. But that's my 'Kind, loving, always there for me' family." Takara now wore a twisted sort of smile.

Usagi opened the rest of her presents in silence, every now and then glancing over to Takara who could be found stretched out on her bed reading a book. The rest of their morning was enjoyable for the two of them. They spent a lot of time in the common room just fooling around for fun and laying around by the fire. By lunch time they could find themselves walking casually to the great hall for lunch. All went by normally, and both Usagi and Takara were interested to hear Harry got a firebolt from an anonymous person. All through the lunch, Usagi was grabbing food off the table and putting it into her sub-space pocket, which she had just recently discovered she could use in this dimension.

"What you want to do for the rest of the day, Usa?" Takara questioned the blonde girl she hadn't noticed taking all the food when they left the hall.

"I'm going to go down into the forest and visit dad for Christmas." She explained simply with a smile, "You don't have to come if you don't feel like it!" She added with the look on Takara's face.

Takara looked as though she was thinking it through before coming to a conclusion, "No way, I'm in. Besides I told your father if anything happened to you when you two were alone at the game, which it did, I would never leave him alone with you again!"

Usagi laughed quietly and went down into their dormitory to grab a cloak, gloves and a scarf for the cold, snowy weather that was winter. [A/N…it sounds weird saying winter is Christmas time…Christmas for us is in summer!...which is now!!!] When Takara had done the same, they left their warm common room and went up to the entrance Hall. Just to the left of it by the stairs going up, was Hermione talking seriously to Professor McGonagall. Usagi gave her a wave when they caught eye contact, and Hermione returned it with a very small, barely visible smile.

Shrugging it off quickly the two girls swept outside into the grounds of Hogwarts that was covered in snow.  [A/N how I would love 2 see snow…never seen the stuff but it sounds pretty cool!] They didn't waste anytime dordling along, but straight into the forest and out of sight for those at Hogwarts. Usagi used her necklace as a guild towards her father whom could have well been anywhere in the forbidden forest. It wasn't to long before they were in the heart of the forest, and Takara had hidden them both behind trees as creatures pasted by them. "The creatures that live in here aren't too fond of humans coming in and exploring their forest." Was all she had said.

"Right there!" Usagi yelled suddenly pointing her finger out in front. The sight she had seen had shocked her and she ran forwards and dropped to her knees at the man laying unconscious on the floor. "What's wrong with him?" She demanded of Takara as she too approached and fell beside Usagi.

Sirius, was there white and cold from being outside in this weather for so long. He lay in a small ball under a tree with his clothes pulled close to his body. "I don't know…I don't think he's been attacked or anything…" Takara mumbled and put her head to his chest to check for a heartbeat, "He's ok. He's breathing, isn't he?"

Usagi nodded quickly, "That's good. He's fine I think. Just fainted maybe from the weather. His clothes are pretty damp; we should dry those off with a warming charm for a start." Takara examined before drying his robes of with a warming charm. "He'll be fine, I promise." She smiled softly to Usagi.

Usagi put a hand to her father's face that was still cold. As though magically, which it probably was, her finger tips begun to glow a pink colour and were heating her father up. It was seconds before his eyes had opened and his skin was feeling a normal temperature again. Her fingertips had stoped glowing the second he had opened his eyes. Slowly he sat up and the girls helped him lean up against the trunk of a tree. "What are you doing?" His muffled moan asked.

"Came to wish you a Merry Christmas," Usagi answered simply, "What happened to you?" She pressed concern visible across her face.

Sirius shook his head weakly, "Nuh, it was nothing. Just got a bit cold and all. You know this horrid winter stuff. Nothing you two really need to worry about." He sighed hoarsely.

"No, it is something; you shouldn't be lurking around the forest in the middle of winter!" Usagi argued back, "You're not even dressed right for it, no wonder you collapsed. There has to be somewhere that you can stay in stead of living here."

Takara nodded, "Yeah. And I know the perfect place…that is if you're not afraid of ghosts..." She sniggered, "But there aren't really any ghosts…it's just a rumour. I reckon you could make pretty good use out of the shrieking shack. Don't you?"

"Of course it's not haunted," Sirius mumbled.

"I reckon it's a great idea." Usagi put in with a smile to Takara, "From what I've seen, people are afraid of that old house, so no one would really go looking for you in it. What do you reckon?"

"I don't know…aren't dementors around in that area? But…I guess its better then here," He sighed, "No, don't worry, I'll take the shack!" he added as his daughter opened her mouth to protest about the dementors.

"The problem is," Takara went on, also ignoring Usagi, "getting you there. We have to get you there without anyone noticing you…"

Sirius then smiled, "I'm two steps ahead. I can just go in my dog form, and there is also a tunnel in Hogwarts that leads straight into the shack. No sweat." He shrugged it off.

"Oh yeah, we'll just lead a giant dog through the halls of Hogwarts and into a secret passageway. No one will surely take a second look at us will they?" Usagi said sarcastically. "Your plans are great, but you have to think them through a bit more."

Sirius and Takara both rolled their eyes, "Okay, hows this. I happen to know that Harry has an invisibility cloak locked up in that tower of his. Maybe if we just ask to borrow it he'll let us. And if worse comes to worse and he says no, we can just bribe that knight into letting us into the common room again and steal it." Takara planned, "And we'll return it by morning of course!" She added in an innocent tone to Usagi's disapproving look about stealing the cloak. "But I don't think it will come to that extreme anyway."

"Happy now, Usa? It's a total fool proof plan. Except if he says no, then you get the fun of breaking into the Gryffindor common room. Must be pretty exciting for Slytherins to get into the Gryffindor common room." Sirius agreed.

Takara shook her head, "Actually I didn't really like going up there…one there's to many stairs to climb and two…there's WAY to much red up there. I don't know how they stand it!"

Usagi could sense an argument about to erupt between the two on housing so she quickly said, "Well, it's getting pretty late…come on 'Kara, I think we better be g-"

"No not yet!" Sirius cut in, "I haven't given you your present yet Usa. Oh, did Harry say anything about that firebolt I sent him? Do you reckon it was a good idea?" Takara's face lit up with surprise in hearing the anomous sender of the firebolt was none other than the man sitting in front of her, while Usagi slowly unwrapped the small box her father had handed to her.

Usagi's mouth hung slightly open as she store at the ring in its little box. The ring itself was made from prism with two wave like arms wrapping around a small pearl in the centre and small diamond to its right. "That was once your mothers. She loved that ring; I remember when she would walk around Hogwarts with it on, showing it off proudly. Said she wanted you to have it when you grew older." Usagi smiled gratefully, but didn't dare put in on, "Oh, don't worry, it will come off. It's not like the necklace." He laughed.

Still smiling she placed it on her middle finger were it was rather noticeable to others. "Oh yeah, I almost forgot…I brought you something too." She added before opening her sub-space pocket and brining out the food she had nicked from the table at lunch.

"Whoa! How'd you do that?" Takara demanded watching Usagi hand the food down to the very ecstatic Sirius, "You pulled it from thin air! That was amazing!"

"Sub-space pocket." She answered simply, still with her smile. "Yes…if I really must I'll teach you." Usagi answered Takara's expression of awe before she even had to ask.

"Oh! Thank you so much! Usa, I think we should be going…look its pretty late now." Takara examined her watch as Usagi did the same to her own.

Nodding she turned back to Sirius. "Okay, I'll try to get that cloak as soon as possible for you. Just hang around here, and enjoy your food for now. Merry Christmas dad." She embraced him in a hug as Takara also wished him a merry Christmas before walking off into the distance.

"Merry Christmas, Girls."

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TITLE CHANGE!! Lol…yeah…I know again…but it went back to what it started out as…lol…soz!!!!! Heh that took a long time to write this chapter…last week of school and all, so that kept us busy…very busy at that. All I can say is I don't wanna be a year 10! I can't believe I am a year 10 now!! How time flys!! And what more, I can't believe Glitter is in year nine now!!! I have known her ever since year 2 (year 1 4 her) n now look at us!...i can tell you I didn't think we'd be as close as we are today. I kinda miss school…I don't know what I'll do tomorrow…everyone else will be at school and work so I'm home alone…lucky me!!^^. And the other half of my reason for this chapter taking so long was I was spending my weekend in hell…with my grandmother and cousins that I h8…so it summed up to what I call my 'week-end in hell'.

Yes, anyhow, how was this chapter? Hmmmm. Longer than usual…and it started out pretty bad…and it sorta finished pretty bad too. So yeah… sorry about that guys! Hmmm Glitters turn to update next…okies!

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